I go to Texas Gym - vaunted as the #1 no-frills gym in America. Mine is in Mesquite, Texas near Dallas. I would like to know who all the strong people are here on Carnage Blender. Maybe we can even compete in real life with each other! I'll post my stats:

Bench Max: 260lbs. x1

Bicep Curls Max: 70lbs x1

...and thats all I really do as of now.
I also work my back and shoulders but they aren't impressive yet.
I will soon be working out my legs and begin working on my abs.

Oh and the force of my hand-grip strength is 180lbs right hand and 175 left hand.

Pretty good arm strength Neo Japan! Let's see: I usually do 9 reps of 50lbs. for curls but it is becoming too easy now since I can repeat the set 2 more times after going through 6 other different bicep exercises. You may be stronger with the bar because I really focus on 1-arm curls: I do 12 sets of 3 different bicep exercises that I use only 1 arm with and just 1 workout and 4 sets of the straight curl-bar.
I think I can do close to 10 times with the curl bar 225lbs but not if its not the very first thing I do that day, lol.
With two arms going the muscles are worked differently and if you do more of those than with just one arm, then you will be stronger with both much more than with one.

Leg Press! You can do more leg-press so don't hesitate! 400 is not that heavy compared to the 1000's of pounds I hear people saying they do, in fact I can probably do that weight about 3x maybe and I haven't gotten into a leg routine yet.

Shoulder Shrugs! Do you use that machine that you just stack weights on either side, then stand between the bars and lift? Or do you use those huge barbells, lol, that would be much more difficult.

Back! I really want to know what back workouts you do! I'm very new to these workouts and I only do two kinds right now: A machine I sit down at and put my stomach against a pad, grab the handles in front of me and with 90lbs. I slowly pull the weight back (4 seconds back then 4 seconds forward again). My second one is free weight barbells 25lbs. each; I put them in front of me about 3-4 inches from my body, then I move them in a straight line out to my sides (4 seconds out then 4 seconds back to starting position). And those are just for my Upper back! I need to learn more!

Triceps! What exactly is it that you do? Close in grip, elbows in with the bench-press bar? Or just with barbells? I don't know how much I can do, I got mine big by doing pushups with my elbows close in to my ribs. What machine do you use? I can't think of one off the top of my head, lol.

Neo Japan's Ranking:

Bench: 2nd place

Curls: Tied for 1st place with Joel

Leg press: 1st place!

Shoulder shrugs: To be announced once judging has finished!

Back: To be announced upon judging and clarification of the exercise!

Triceps: To be announced upon judging!

This is the current ranking! I want everyone to post their body weight and height too. My height: 6'0" weight: 235lbs.
This is to get a good power to weight ratio. Also, the shorter your arms and legs the easier it is to lift weight ;)

I want to everyone to post their stats here! I hope to make a page in the wiki with all the results and ranking.

I'm loving this! It's like a Tank competition in RL. And our CB statisticians can rank various aspects of strength to see who might win in a gladitorial arena. Personally, I think I benched 200lbs once in my life, like my junior year of college. However, I can run 26 miles, so i think I'd kick butt in evasion. You might be stronger, but you can't catch me. ;)

Nice running skills Revs! If you had a bow then you could probably keep combat in ranged indefinitely, lol. I've got good reflexes, reaction speed, and timing so you'd have to stay out of range!

I think its a great idea to have some overall strength ratings given to those who post so that we could put those stats into CB form to see who would win! What makes it awesome is that we could improve ourselves as well and maybe overcome those who could beat us before!
Those of us that know martial arts could have 'Unarmed Combat' as a skill etc. That would double the depth of participation with the CB site: The CB game and these Converted/Unconverted strength statistics!

I've mastered the art of Sit-Downs. I can do about 80 reps in a day, and I can hold the Lounge position on the couch for an hour at a time pretty easily. And I'm not sure what "running" is, but if it involves cheese balls, you've got yourself a competition.

I haven't had a gym membership in probably 5 years. I used to rock the abdominal machines, and many of the triceps exercises, but my weakness was inclined benchpresses (angled past 90-degrees). I slacked off real workouts for rock climbing, kayaking, and biking, but that wasn't the same, and I've really stopped doing those, too.

Very good Aftermath! I could do about that many 3 months ago. Right now I could probably do that or more :-)

So far Neo Japan is about tied with me and Revs can run a 26 mile circle around me. How much do you weigh Aftermath? It really counts with push ups since its a bodyweight workout. I weigh 235lbs. so each of my push-ups is worth more than push-ups by someone who weighs 180lbs.

Well, Demigod, it seems you have a very good base of fitness in your recent past. You can start again any time! After Highschool, where I first started working out, I didn't lose much strength, and after maybe a year of pretty inconsistent workouts at home without weights I found that I had actually increased in strength upon my first gym visit. It is never too late to become strong! Just start it nice and easy and don't overwork yourself; eat and sleep alot and be consistent.

I think you just have to eat more Aftermath, lol, sounds too simple, heheh. Sleep and eating are sure weight gainers obviously, but be sure to not mix aerobics and cardiovascular with the same day of weight training. Also, eat alot after a workout, before bed, and immediately after you wake up!

for back, i put left arm and knee on a bench, and pick up weight with right arm and slowly bring it up to my side with a wrist flex at the end, lower, rinse repeat.

shrugs I use a benching bar, put 2 plates on each side, hold bar at my waist, hands shoulder width apart, shrug, then roll shoulders back each time. usually on fourth set I find myself not doing the roll.

triceps, i laydown on a bench, use a short, curvy bar, press it, then slowly bend my elbows bringing the bar to the top of my head, then bringing it back up. A good way to burn out tri's is to do this, then hold weight at center of stomach and push up and away really fast.

machine tri;s is one of those pully machines where the bar is above you, like the shoulder pull down machine, but a much smaller bar, and you stand, not sit. pull bar all the way down, then lift up by bending elbow, only bring to 95 degree angle, then bring back down.

Week 1: My whole body aches. I'm rusty. It'll get better.
Week 2: Aches less. Hey, this is getting much easier.
Week 3: DAMN! This is intense! Look what I can do, and I'm not even sweating!
Week 4: Raaaaah! I could go on forever! Man, I feel like punching the walls right now. Blblblblblbllb!

Max bench was either 240 or 260 lbs twice. This is without a spotter, going past just tapping the chest, and only minimal breathing was allowed by my standards. The wonders of the body when the mind thinks their being is below par.
Arm curled 60 lbs twenty times and more every other day I went into that workout area.
Max squat would be guessing 450lbs - 610lbs, proven with this ancient molding wood 8'x8' garage door section wet from the night before. Someone had to help guide the top of that monster out the opening, but I count it considering. Don't remember any big squat numbers besides 460lbs with an unknown number of reps, guessing 10. Though I did do seventy two leg presses of 125lbs for school testing. Why 72? Coach stopped me after I did the last 21 with one leg.

Here's the knee-slapper, did all this in 7th & 8th grade, a great deal was done in secret, and none of which pushed a limit. Personal weight at the time was 209+lbs which people thought I lied about. Made me happy at the times when people said I looked 175lbs.
I've always been that strong turns out. Before I graduated, was told took two nurses holding me to keep in the plastic tub-cart the night I was born, so I wouldn't roll out a third time. Kept in a tent(cage)until noon the next day. Was caught both times! :P Would swim a quarter of a day great deal of the time until I was 7 and moved. Once moved started Kung-Fu at the same age and practised until about 9 years old, so not a total mutant. Was told "You don't know your own strength!" literally all my life. Can't imagine a few issues coming from that preaching. -.-
Don't expect me to prove any of this. Don't expect me to try for max anytime soon. Don't expect a picture of me anytime soon. Quit working out about sophomore year. Since I can't do any of those numbers anymore I feel ok being taken on faith in CB as well as real life.

I'm only 17 and not very big built so just work with what i have really..
Always been into excersizing, been running properly for few years now, though quit the club due to study best time of 5k was 17:20 not too bad.
Been weight training for about a year, dont compare to what you guys do, big monsters haha. Take whey protein every day. Weight train 4 times a week, this includes of only 4 excersizes-

Do abs nearly everyday along with diamond hand press ups which are harder than normal ones.. Any tips ill gladly take and i don't train on back or legs yet.. Is there actually any safe free weight back excersizes out there?

I'm not much into the weights, and I couldn't give you numbers. I've been realtively fit.. I starting to Train for a fight actually. My college has a fight club with a couple people from Combat arts in the army, me I'm just learning the ropes I was a high school wrestler, and a bit of Ju-jitsu..

Machine-'Pull-Downs'(Triceps)- 195lbs. x10 Neo Japan 1st place, I think I did the wrong tricep workout to find my max: I did the cable machine with the rope grips that hangs a little above your head. I grabbed it then pulled it down to chest level and then extended my elbows pulling the rope towards the ground. I just realised what machine you use: a machine that you sit down at and tuck your knees under some pads as you push the bars on each side of you down. Is that the one you do? Because with the standing up pull-downs I can do
105lbs. 10x but with the machine that I think you may be using I can do over 200lbs. I'm not gonna post that until I finally get my exact max.

Back-one arm dumbbell 'Pull back': 80lbs. 1st place Neo Japan, I haven't tried do do this one yet but I think I know how; I'll try it next time I go to the gym.

Leg Press: 400 x10 Neo Japan 1st place, I still don't know my max.

For Simply Nic I would need him to go back to the gym since he hasn't been there for more than a month. You can lose a lot of strength in a month and a half. I know you can't go back until your injury clears up, but I think you can get back to where you left off pretty quickly.

back in high school (almost 7 years ago, when did I get so old?! o.O), I couldn't fit enough weights on the leg press to find out my max. Never been much for bench-pressing, though I've done a lot of roofing, some floors, and various other jobs requiring "heavy lifting" and have yet to come across a situation where I've needed more strength than I had... 6'6" 230lb, and while I'm not an athlete by any means, I'm in about as good a shape as I wanna be ^_^

I usually do that for my first set; I do four sets of what I listed. Usually I have to go down in weight with one or more of my workouts, but this time I didn't have to! I didn't even feel like I would need a spotter the whole time I was at the gym!
Before I increase my Bench-press weight I will increase my Incline-Bench and my Fly-press Machine's weight first. I am very careful to not over-work myself.
Seeing me progress further makes you all want to start hitting the gym, right? By the way, it only took me about a year to get this strong. Just invest a year in your weight-lifting routine and you will see results like this! A routine that is not too hard or demanding is what you should make for yourselves. I will post my routine for every muscle group in my next thread.
I'm also going to make a new post soon that lists the kind of diet strategies that I use and various other tips.

Has anybody else improved their max? I'm very curious about how fast others are growing!

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